Samahan Abdel-Aziz

Samahan Abdel-Aziz (died 31 January 2016) was the top Salafist preacher in Yemen during the 2010s.

Biography
Samahan Abdel-Aziz was born in southern Yemen to a family of Sunni Muslim Arabs, and he became a cleric who supported Salafism. However, he spoke out against extremist groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, and on 31 January 2016 he was abducted from his mosque in Aden. Hours after his abduction from his anti-extremism sermon, he was found dead in Sheikh Othman with signs of torture appearing on his body. The area of Sheikh Othman was largely extremist-occupied, and he was executed there before his body was discovered.